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Post by prnolonger on Oct 25, 2021 17:12:45 GMT
This article published yesterday (October 24, 2021) shows the inner workings of how Christian institutions discourage and dismiss reports of sexual assaults. I recommend reading this article in full to understand the mechanics of how purity culture does this endemically and by design. The terrible handling of sexual assault in the PRC is not unique to the PRC, but rather it is only one example in a sea of institutional enabling of sexual assault within conservative Christian cultures. Reading this will give the reader an understanding of the problems with sexual assault handing within purity culture conservative Christianity using concrete examples in an institution that is not the PRC. Because Liberty University has the benefit of being a non-PR establishment with a similar culture, hopefully reading this will allow PR lurkers to explore the topic more fully. This article mentions the same conspiracy/culture of silence that is prevalent in the PRC that is a major barrier towards achieving justice and works to protect abusers. See how these kinds of cultural problems within the church are leading to destroying real, actual lives. This is not just some theological debate that can be held in the abstract and battled out in magazines articles, published booklets, and sermons. These are real issues, affecting real people's lives. These women are fully human and they are worthy of justice. www.propublica.org/article/the-liberty-way-how-liberty-university-discourages-and-dismisses-students-reports-of-sexual-assaults
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Post by questioneverything on Oct 25, 2021 19:26:47 GMT
This article published yesterday (October 24, 2021) shows the inner workings of how Christian institutions discourage and dismiss reports of sexual assaults. I recommend reading this article in full to understand the mechanics of how purity culture does this endemically and by design. The terrible handling of sexual assault in the PRC is not unique to the PRC, but rather it is only one example in a sea of institutional enabling of sexual assault within conservative Christian cultures. Reading this will give the reader an understanding of the problems with sexual assault handing within purity culture conservative Christianity using concrete examples in an institution that is not the PRC. Because Liberty University has the benefit of being a non-PR establishment with a similar culture, hopefully reading this will allow PR lurkers to explore the topic more fully. This article mentions the same conspiracy/culture of silence that is prevalent in the PRC that is a major barrier towards achieving justice and works to protect abusers. See how these kinds of cultural problems within the church are leading to destroying real, actual lives. This is not just some theological debate that can be held in the abstract and battled out in magazines articles, published booklets, and sermons. These are real issues, affecting real people's lives. These women are fully human and they are worthy of justice. www.propublica.org/article/the-liberty-way-how-liberty-university-discourages-and-dismisses-students-reports-of-sexual-assaultsNotice too the reticence in engaging the law at Liberty University. I suspect this is a trait of the PRC too. Well, probably more than suspect.
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Post by tryingtoleave on Oct 27, 2021 18:53:18 GMT
This article published yesterday (October 24, 2021) shows the inner workings of how Christian institutions discourage and dismiss reports of sexual assaults. I recommend reading this article in full to understand the mechanics of how purity culture does this endemically and by design. The terrible handling of sexual assault in the PRC is not unique to the PRC, but rather it is only one example in a sea of institutional enabling of sexual assault within conservative Christian cultures. Reading this will give the reader an understanding of the problems with sexual assault handing within purity culture conservative Christianity using concrete examples in an institution that is not the PRC. Because Liberty University has the benefit of being a non-PR establishment with a similar culture, hopefully reading this will allow PR lurkers to explore the topic more fully. This article mentions the same conspiracy/culture of silence that is prevalent in the PRC that is a major barrier towards achieving justice and works to protect abusers. See how these kinds of cultural problems within the church are leading to destroying real, actual lives. This is not just some theological debate that can be held in the abstract and battled out in magazines articles, published booklets, and sermons. These are real issues, affecting real people's lives. These women are fully human and they are worthy of justice. www.propublica.org/article/the-liberty-way-how-liberty-university-discourages-and-dismisses-students-reports-of-sexual-assaultsI've pasted some of article that gives a general idea of what was said. Basically students who reported rape were encouraged not to report to police and the victims were attacked and punished while the attackers got off with no punishment or disciple. I would encourage everyone to read this article fully. It really gives you a good idea about the dangers of purity culture and the effects it has on those victims. Axley was a first-year student at Liberty in the fall of 2017. She had been at the school less than three months. One Saturday night, she went to a Halloween party at an off-campus apartment and drank eight shots of vodka, along with a couple of mixed drinks. She doesn’t remember much after that, until, she recalls, waking up with a fellow student on top of her and his hand pressed over her mouth. (The student denies Axley’s allegations.) After Axley returned to her dorm, she called the campus police department. One of the officers drove her to the local hospital, where, records show, a nurse documented 15 bruises, welts and lacerations on her arm, face and torso.The RA, Axley said, told her not to report it, saying Axley could be found to have violated the school’s prohibition against drinking and fraternizing with the opposite sex. After five months, Axley heard from Bucci that Liberty had completed its investigation and a committee was now going to consider the case. Bucci invited Axley to first come to the office and review the file. Axley went in and looked through the materials. The photos with her injuries, she recalled, were no longer there. Axley said that when she asked what had happened, Bucci told her the photos had been removed because they were too “explicit.”Students say that even Liberty University police officers discouraged victims from pursuing charges after reporting assaults. Lamb worked at Liberty until Oct. 6, when, he said, he was fired for internally blowing the whistle on the university’s repeated failures to respond to concerns about sexual assault. Law enforcement was not on the list, despite a federal law requiring that students reporting sexual violence be told about that option. the counselor not only had Stargel sign a victim notice about her own potential violation of the Liberty Way, but, Stargel recalled, also told her to initial language in the document promising she wouldn’t report the case to police.
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